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Southern cultures This page intentionally left blank Southern cultures The Edited by Harry L. Watson Fifteenth and Larry J. Griffin Anniversary with Lisa Eveleigh, Reader Dave Shaw, Ayse Erginer, and Paul Quigley The University of North Carolina Press Chapel Hill ∫ 2008 The University of North Carolina Press All rights reserved Designed by Kimberly Bryant Set in Monotype Garamond by Keystone Typesetting, Inc. Manufactured in the United States of America The paper in this book meets the guidelines for permanence and durability of the Committee on Production Guidelines for Book Longevity of the Council on Library Resources. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Southern cultures: the fifteenth anniversary reader / edited by Harry L. Watson and Larry J. Gri≈n; with Lisa Eveleigh, Dave Shaw, Ayse Erginer, and Paul Quigley. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. isbn 978-0-8078-3212-7 (cloth: alk. paper) isbn 978-0-8078-5880-6 (pbk.: alk. paper) 1. Southern States—Civilization. 2. Southern States—Social life and customs. I. Watson, Harry L. II. Gri≈n, Larry J. III. Eveleigh, Lisa. IV. Shaw, Dave, 1966– V. Erginer, Ayse. VI. Quigley, Paul. VII. Southern cultures. f209.s733 2008 975—dc22 2007042150 A Caravan book. For more information, visit www.caravanbooks.org. cloth 12 11 10 09 08 5 4 3 2 1 paper 12 11 10 09 08 5 4 3 2 1 For john shelton reed , Founding Editor of Southern Cultures and Co-founder of The UNC Center for the Study of the American South This page intentionally left blank Contents Front Porch Harry L. Watson and Larry J. Gri≈n, xi A Moveable Mason-Dixon Line Where is the South? Which South? Where isn’t the South? Southern Distinctiveness, Yet Again, or, Why America Still Needs the South (6:3), 3 Larry J. Gri≈n Chicago as the Northernmost County of Mississippi (8:1), 22 Anthony Walton Teaching Gone with the Wind in the Socialist Republic of Vietnam (11:3), 32 Mart Stewart Haiku (4:4), 49 C. Vann Woodward Intractable Identity In an ever-evolving region, potent markers of southern pride and identification remain. Landmarks of Power Building a Southern Past, 1885–1915 (Inaugural Issue), 53 Catherine W. Bishir The Southern Accent—Alive and Well (Inaugural Issue), 94 Michael Montgomery The Banner That Won’t Stay Furled (8:1), 114 John Shelton Reed Living with Confederate Symbols (8:1), 132 franklin forts The New Days of Yore Country music, the blues, Atticus Finch, and southern childhoods aren’t what they used to be—and perhaps never really were. Rednecks, White Socks, and Piña Coladas? Country Music Ain’t What It Used to Be . . . And It Really Never Was (5:4), 147 James C. Cobb ‘‘Where Is the Love?’’ Racial Violence, Racial Healing, and Blues Communities (12:4), 155 Adam Gussow The Strange Career of Atticus Finch (6:2), 175 Joseph Crespino Rituals of Initiation and Rebellion Adolescent Responses to Segregation in Southern Autobiography (3:2), 194 Melton McLaurin Colliding Cultures Peoples and powers intersect, forging and reshaping the South and its southerners. Columbus Meets Pocahontas in the American South (3:1), 211 Theda Perdue A Sense of Place Jews, Blacks, and White Gentiles in the American South (3:1), 225 David Goldfield Martin Luther King and the Southern Dream of Freedom (11:4), 244 Timothy B. Tyson Our Lady of Guadeloupe Visits the Confederate Memorial (8:2), 255 Thomas A. Tweed And the Dead Shall Rise: An Overview (11:4), 272 Steve Oney Regional Stereotypes Kudzu, hogs, rednecks, feuding, and rasslin’ have real stories behind them. Kudzu: A Tale of Two Vines (7:3), 287 Derek H. Alderman and Donna G’Segner Alderman A Short History of Redneck The Fashioning of a Southern White Masculine Identity (1:2), 303 Patrick Huber ‘‘Where the Sun Set Crimson and the Moon Rose Red’’ Writing Appalachia and the Kentucky Mountain Feuds (2:3/4), 328 Dwight B. Billings and Kathleen M. Blee The ‘‘Tennessee Test of Manhood’’ Professional Wrestling and Southern Cultural Stereotypes (3:3), 353 Louis M. Kyriakoudes and Peter A. Coclanis ‘‘How ’bout a Hand for the Hog’’ The Enduring Nature of the Swine as a Cultural Symbol in the South (1:3), 371 S. Jonathan Bass Southern Traditions What interests, guides, and defines southerners is a diverse collection we can only begin to sample here. Equine Relics of the Civil War (6:1), 391 Drew Gilpin Faust The Most Southern Sport on Earth: NASCAR and the Unions (7:2), 409 Dan Pierce African American Humor and the South (1:4), 434 Trudier Harris Sister Act: Sorority Rush as Feminine Performance (5:3), 445 Elizabeth Boyd The Death of Southern Heroes: Historic Funerals of the South (1:2), 462 Charles Reagan Wilson About the Contributors, 483 Index, 487
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